Saul BraunSaul Braun, 88 years old and displaying a resurgence of creative energy, is a graduate of Yale College class of '53. A number of his articles have appeared in Esquire, Playboy and for the New York Times Sunday Magazine cover, and ha had several WW 2 non- fiction books published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. He was motivated to write this novel, his first, by a concern for the rise of native Fascist elements in our society and also by a powerful memory from his childhood: at some point in the later years of the 1930s, his father received a telegram notifying him his entire Czech Jewish family still then living in Czechoslovakia, numbering in the dozens, had been murdered in Auschwitz. Braun has never forgotten, at the age of 8 or 9, confronting the powerful image of his otherwise stoic father weeping copiously and sitting shiva for the innocents of his lineage slaughtered in the Holocaust. Braun is an only son, but he has four sons and two grown grandsons. He figures he has done his part. Read More Read Less